Metro island a new concept in the management of marine resources: The case of Sapeken Island, Indonesia

This paper is a very preliminary study on maritime ethnic life in Indonesia is more represented in small city islands, so called concept of metro island . The study was conducted in February of 2011. Areas of this study is Sapeken Island has an area of 65.14 hectares with a population of 8,312 inhabitants which means that the population density of this island is equivalent to 12,700 people/km2 which is a very high density class, even more than other big cities in Indonesia such as Jakarta or Surabaya. Label of metro island adopted the parameters of life in a city such as demographic issues, ethnically diverse, and the existence of culture among ethnic acculturation or cultural fusion accordance with the conditions of cities in mainland. Rapid Integrated Survey is used as a method in this research to inventory indicators of both physical and non physical that there should be minimal in an area with a label of the city. Identification is done on a scale preliminary analysis by mapping the availability of freshwater, energy, telecommunications, infrastructure, environmental quality and ecological mapping using interpretation of high resolution remote sensing imagery data approached. The study found that a metro island’ ecosystem is always occupied with excellent sea waters condition due to these factors as initial capital of the sustainability of a metro islands that still rely on marine resources as the base primary economic sector in the community.